The Icon of the Church

The Church brings Man up on freedom. She not only acknowledges his freedom but also brings him up on it. No one in the Church, regardless of his status or the level of righteousness he has attained, has the right to intellectually or morally hold any member in it captive... Everything in the Church is directed towards preserving that each Man is a child of God his Father, that he is free from death, from all death. Man is either free or he is a machine. Only those who are truly free understand the mysteries of obedience. Nothing is easier than leading a person who behaves like a machine. The challenge that sends out great people in the Church and in the world is always found elsewhere; it lies in the scope of freedom. This glorifies the work of God, Who has created us free first and foremost; moreover, it acknowledges that the free person is the one who makes the new world, that is, who benefits everyone. The Church is a dialogue. She does not consist of hierarchies or classes, with some people above and others below, but she is a community in which everyone needs everyone else. This is the golden icon of the Church for which we are all responsible.